People

Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Undraye Howard, executive director of My Home, Your Home (Milwaukee), to be director of consultation and leadership development.

Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod & the Islands (Hyannis, Mass.): Appointed Alisa M. Galazzi, director of development at the Cape Cod Foundation (Yarmouth Port, Mass.), to be executive director.

Arizona State U. Foundation (Tempe): Appointed Johnnie Ray, senior vice president for development and university relations at Emory U. (Atlanta), to be president and chief executive officer.

Atlanta Union Mission: Announced the resignation of David Jones, public-relations coordinator.

California State U. (Long Beach): Appointed Theresa Mendoza, vice president for university advancement at San Diego State U., to be senior adviser for campus-advancement programs.

Carnival Center for the Performing Arts (Miami): Appointed Richard G. Miller, associate director of the Performing Arts Center Foundation (Miami), to be vice president of development.

Chicago Public Radio: Appointed Matt Asciutto, an associate director of development for corporate and foundation relations at DePaul U. (Chicago), to be director of foundation and government relations.

Civic Ventures (San Francisco): Appointed Marc Freedman, founder and president, to be chief executive officer; John S. Gomperts, chief executive officer of Experience Corps (Washington), to be president, based in Washington; Michelle Hynes, director of programs at Experience Corps, also to be vice president, based in Washington; and Phyllis Segal, an organizational-development consultant in Boston, to be senior vice president of Civic Ventures and director of the BreakThrough Awards, based in Boston.

Clark U. (Worcester, Mass.): Appointed Karen A. Doherty, director of research and a development officer at Wesleyan U. (Middletown, Conn.), to be director of advancement services; Aixa L. Kidd, assistant dean of student affairs at the Boston Conservatory, to be director of alumni affairs; and Daniel L. Petrocelli, director of planned giving at the American Heart Association Northeast Affiliate (Framingham, Mass.), to be director of planned giving.

Crater Lake National Park Trust (Ore.): Appointed Jeff Allen, executive director of the Oregon Environmental Council (Portland), to be executive director.

Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Doris W. Koo, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. Ms. Koo succeeds Bart Harvey, who has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees. Enterprise Community Partners promotes affordable housing and community development.

Fairfield U. (Conn.): Appointed Stephanie B. Frost, director of major gifts at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.), to be vice president for university advancement.

Fieldstone Alliance (St. Paul): Appointed Ronald A. McKinley, executive director of the National Network of Grantmakers (Minneapolis), to be project director for the Kellogg Action Lab Project. The Fieldstone Alliance provides management-assistance services to nonprofit groups.

Girl Scouts of Milwaukee Area: Appointed Jennifer D. Charpentier, vice president of research at Interact Communications (Onalaska, Wis.), to be director of development.

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association: Announced the death of Kaye Jamison, a co-founder and former president, on November 16. She was 87.

Heartlands International (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Susan Wobst, senior manager of strategy at Vital Voices Global Partnership (Washington), to be president. This organization promotes international economic and social development.

Holocaust Museum Houston: Appointed Diane McMaster, director of advancement at the Awty International School (Houston), to be director of development.

Illinois College of Optometry (Chicago): Appointed David Korajczyk, director of grant programs, to be vice president for development.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Selena Mendy Singleton, chief of programs at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (Silver Spring, Md.), to be director of public affairs.

Lawrence Technological U. (Southfield, Mich.): Appointed Stephen E. Brown, associate vice president for marketing and communications at Wayne State U. (Detroit), to be vice president for university advancement.

Lockerly Arboretum (Milledgeville, Ga.): Appointed Billie Brown, a marketing and communications consultant based in Atlanta, to be director of development.

Maryland Food Bank (Baltimore): Appointed Deborah Flateman, chief executive officer of the Vermont Foodbank (South Barre), to be executive director, effective February 5. Ms. Flateman succeeds Bill Ewing, who is resigning.

Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration (Conn.): Appointed Peter Glankoff, chief marketing officer at Mystic Seaport, to be senior vice president for development and public affairs.

National Academy Foundation (New York): Appointed J.D. Hoye, president of Keep the Change (Aptos, Calif.), to be president. Ms. Hoye succeeds John J. Ferrandino, who is retiring.

Natural Resources Defense Council (New York): Appointed Peter Lehner, chief of the environmental-protection bureau of the New York attorney general’s office, to be executive director.

New Hampshire Catholic Charities (Manchester): Appointed John J. Gennetti, director of individual gifts at Saint Anselm College (Manchester), to be vice president of development.

Robert Morris U. (Moon Township, Pa.): Appointed Jay Terrence Carson, vice president for institutional advancement and chief development officer at Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, Pa.), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, Calif.): Announced the retirement of Richard Murphy, president and chief executive officer, effective July 1.

Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara (Calif.): Appointed Colette Hadley, associate executive director, to be executive director.

State U. of New York College at Brockport: Appointed Brad Schreiber, director of agency advancement at Mary Cariola Children’s Center (Rochester, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Summa Hospitals Foundation (Akron, Ohio): Appointed August A. Napoli Jr., vice chairman of government relations and strategic support at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, to be president and chief operating officer.

Syracuse U. (New York): Appointed Ellen Beck, regional director of development for the U. of Miami, based in Los Angeles, to be regional director of development for the West Coast, based in Los Angeles; Kristye Brackett, a planned-giving officer at Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York), to be director of development for the Martin J. Whitman School of Management; Ann Donahue, associate dean for external relations at American U.’s Kogod School of Business (Washington), to be executive director for regional operations for greater Washington; Lori Kiewe, director of development at the university’s development-advancement services office, to be director for leadership annual giving; Leila Rice, a director of gift planning at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.), to be director of development and gift planning for the development-advancement services office; Roxanne Sopchak, director of corporate communications at the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York (Syracuse), to be associate director of donor relations for the development-advancement services office; and Stephen Swain, director of research and prospect systems at Ithaca College (N.Y.), to be senior director of research and prospect systems for the development-advancement services office.

United Way of the Capital Area (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Susan B. Dunn, interim president and chief executive officer and former senior vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. Ms. Dunn succeeds George Bahamonde, who died in July.

Widener U. (Chester, Pa.): Appointed Michael Bivens, executive director of the Eagle Academy Foundation (New York), to be director of corporate and foundation relations; Daniel W. Hanson, director of marketing and recruitment at the Drexel U. School of Education (Philadelphia), to be director of public relations; Kevin M. Ralph, director of development at the Foundation of the U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick), to be assistant vice president of development; and Rob Skomorucha, director of external affairs at the Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington), to be director of government and external relations.

William Mitchell College of Law (St. Paul): Appointed Linda Keillor Berg, vice president at the U. of Minnesota Foundation (Minneapolis), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

World Lung Foundation (New York): Appointed Elizabeth Myatt, vice president of professional relations at Health Learning Systems (Parsippany, N.J.), to be chief executive officer and executive director.

Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.): Appointed Vince Passaro, a writer and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine (New York), to be director of foundation and corporate relations and special projects, based in New York. This organization provides support for artists.

YMCA of Greater Seattle: Appointed Robert B. Gilbertson Jr., president and chief executive officer of the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA (Fla.), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Gilbertson succeeds Neil Nicoll, who resigned in June.

GRANT MAKERS

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Charles Fink, founder and president of Fink Inc. (Cincinnati), to be giving-strategies consultant for the Clermont Community Fund, and Patti Ries, president of Verbatim Voice Messaging Service (Cincinnati), to be communications assistant.

John Templeton Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.): Appointed Stephen Klimczuk, a principal at A.T. Kearney (Washington), to be vice president of strategy and evaluation.

Osteopathic Heritage Foundations (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Kerry Shaw Wills, grants-division manager at Bound Tree Medical (Dublin, Ohio), to be a grants manager.

Quantum Foundation (West Palm Beach, Fla.): Appointed Paul Gionfriddo, executive director of the Palm Beach County Community Health Alliance (West Palm Beach, Fla.), to be president. Mr. Gionfriddo succeeds Jeannette Corbett, who is retiring.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Vera Bennett, interim chief executive officer and former chief financial officer at the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be chief financial officer, and Mari Ellen Reynolds, director of development at the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose), to be chief of staff. Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Peninsula Community Foundation recently merged to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Wallace Foundation (New York): Appointed Daniel J. Windham, president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Music School Settlement, to be arts director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Cancer Society (Atlanta): Elected Richard C. Wender, a family physician and chair of the department of family and community medicine at Thomas Jefferson U. and Hospital’s Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Asia Foundation (San Francisco): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Gina Lin Chu, a community volunteer in New York; Jared Frost, a co-founder and executive adviser of the RMI Group (Jakarta, Indonesia); David Michael Lampton, director of China studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington); and Judith F. Wilbur, a community volunteer in San Francisco.

Earthwatch Institute (Maynard, Mass.): Elected Whitney L. Johnson, founder and a principal at PlumRiver (Wellesley, Mass.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Ford Foundation (New York): Elected Thurgood Marshall Jr., a partner at Bingham McCutchen (Washington) and a principal at Bingham Consulting Group (Washington), to the Board of Trustees.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Baltimore): Announced the death of Nathan Weinberg, a trustee and brother of co-founder Harry Weinberg, on November 25. He was 89.

Marin Community Foundation (Novato, Calif.): Elected Gary T. Giacomini, a partner at Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy (San Francisco), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis): Elected John M. Murphy Jr., a senior partner at Somerset Asset Management (Minneapolis), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

National Committee on Planned Giving (Indianapolis): Elected Andrea Latchem, interim assistant vice president of alumni relations and senior philanthropy adviser at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, Calif.): Elected Irwin Jacobs, co-founder and former chief executive officer of Qualcomm (San Diego), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Fund Evaluation Group (Cincinnati): Appointed James W. Angelica, a principal at State Street Global Advisors (Boston), to be senior research analyst. Fund Evaluation Group advises corporations, individuals, and nonprofit organizations on investments.

Jacobson Consulting Applications (New York): Appointed Alexis Parker, product communication specialist at Gateway Ticketing Systems (Boyertown, Pa.), to be a consultant, and Ellen Duero Rohwer, practice director at Heller Consulting (Milwaukee), to be a director. Jacobson Consulting provides technology and management consulting for nonprofit organizations.

Lipman Hearne (Washington): Appointed Patrick R. Riccards, vice president and practice-group director at Widmeyer Communications (Washington), to be vice president of public affairs. This company is a marketing-communications and consulting firm for nonprofit organizations.

Orr Associates (Washington): Appointed Susan Corsini, senior vice president at the Sallie Mae Fund (Reston, Va.), to be managing director. This corporation provides event-management, fund-raising, and marketing consulting services for nonprofit groups.

SofterWare (Fort Washington, Pa.): Appointed Jon Biedermann, vice president for the company’s DonorPerfect Online product, to be vice president for fund-raising products. SofterWare develops software for charitable organizations.

Strategic Fundraising (Oakdale, Minn.): Appointed Corey Gordon, president and chief marketing officer at Agilis (Albert Lea, Minn.), to be chief marketing officer. Strategic Fundraising helps charities and other organizations conduct direct-response fund raising.